VA Cancer Care Commander: Taking Charge of Your Cancer Care Guide

About VA Cancer Care Commander: Taking Charge of Your Cancer Care

This guide shows ways to navigate the cancer care journey from diagnosis through treatment and beyond.

• The guide has six sections:
  • Starting Your Cancer Care Journey: Gives an overview of questions you might have and the purpose of the guide.
  • Your VA Cancer Care Team: Introduces the members of your VA Cancer Care Team. It’s a way to learn about different roles and what resources are available.
  • Getting Started with Treatment: Provides an overview of the logistics—getting to appointments and what happens there.
  • What If I Need More Help with…? Includes common needs and concerns you may have during cancer treatment—from Advance Directives to video visits—and resources that can help with each.
  • What If My VA Doesn’t Have That? Gives information about how VA works with other hospitals and services to make sure you get the care you need.
  • Tools for You to Personalize: Provides tools for you to keep track of your health care team, prepare questions for your team, and personalize your survivorship plan with your health care team.
• This guide answers many questions commonly asked by Veterans on their cancer care journeys.
• Published 2024

Access Guide

About Us

The mission of the South Central MIRECC is to promote equity in engagement, access, and quality of mental health care for Veterans facing barriers to care, especially rural Veterans. The South Central MIRECC strives to promote and celebrate a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion among our staff, across our sites, and in the work we do to improve mental health care for rural and other underserved Veterans. New and featured clinical education product updates are produced by the SC MIRECC Education Core. Email us at VISN16SCMIRECCEducation@va.gov. Visit us at https://www.mirecc.va.gov/VISN16/index.asp.